# Chapter 1. Introduction

This document is a brief introduction to the K Desktop Environment. It will familiarize you with some of the basic features of KDE.

This guide is far from covering all aspects of the K Desktop or even most of them. It will only describe some of the most basic ways to accomplish a few of the most common tasks.

We assume that you are already familiar with at least one graphical user interface, for example CDE(tm), Geos(tm), GEM(tm), NeXT(tm), MacOS(tm), OS/2(tm) or MS-Windows(tm). So we will not explain the usage of the mouse or the keyboard but concentrate on hopefully more interesting things.